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way in foreign countries. >> he spoke of foreign policy in the speech. this was a speech that was designed for living rooms more than it was designed for the hall. to speak to people, to get a chance to tell people more about himself and about what he would do for the country. >> rose: that was good. he needed to do that because people thought the conventions are how you define yourself and we had that campaign speech and that film did that in fact through the eyes of other people bain and elsewhere, companies he had taken over. there's also this and this is an important time for you at this table to say this is what was right and this is what was wrong and this is what we might have done, this is what we didn't do and this is the great misconception which is a myth this is all part of this conversation. did you look at a speech that you had commissioned and not include any of it and throw it away. >> rose: no, that absolutely didn't happen. >> rose: you have seen that reported. >> i have. and you know in these situations you have a choice to go and corr
way in foreign countries. >> he spoke of foreign policy in the speech. this was a speech that was designed for living rooms more than it was designed for the hall. to speak to people, to get a chance to tell people more about himself and about what he would do for the country. >> rose: that was good. he needed to do that because people thought the conventions are how you define yourself and we had that campaign speech and that film did that in fact through the eyes of other people...
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nixon told him that because of the severity of the foreign policy issues, to feel free to come in and interrupt anything. well, henry would do it for trivial things. and one day nixon was really kind of ticked off at henry for a variety of things. and i -- we were in the executive office building, the door -- the far door swung open, i looked over, it was henry. i caught a glance. nixon did not appear to look but i know he knew it was henry. and he said to me, i think you're right, chuck, i think it is time we use nuclear weapons, everything else has failed. and kissinger stood in the doorway absolutely paralyzed. well, that's on a tape somewhere, somebody is going to hear that on a tape and say, oh, my lord, this nixon really was a madman. colson really did bring out the dark side of nixon, everything they say is true. it was pure humor. nixon loved it. >>> hear more about his political career, watergate, and his later work in prison reform online at the c-span video library with a quarter century of politics and public affairs available on your computer any time. >>> news corporatio
nixon told him that because of the severity of the foreign policy issues, to feel free to come in and interrupt anything. well, henry would do it for trivial things. and one day nixon was really kind of ticked off at henry for a variety of things. and i -- we were in the executive office building, the door -- the far door swung open, i looked over, it was henry. i caught a glance. nixon did not appear to look but i know he knew it was henry. and he said to me, i think you're right, chuck, i...
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>> let's take the question, militarization/foreign policy first? >> one of the central arguments of my paper, either president has to invest more in the diplomatic tool. it doesn't necessarily, translate into increase funding for state department, right. but investing heavily in the diplomatic tool and capabilities we need to do exact plea whly w talked about knitting together new alliance and arrangements. this has become a partisan issue. in the sense you see republican -- congressional action to defund, defund, to reduce state funding or block increases in state funding et cetera. in fairness, the previous administration in its second term also tried to increase funding to state and to bolster state, et cetera. i think this becomes an important issue. do we have the right tools of government to, to forge together new alliances, to manage issues in a much more complex stage. i don't think we have a very honest conversation about this. it becomes should we increase, decrease the budget of state department question. one piece of the puzzle. i don't
>> let's take the question, militarization/foreign policy first? >> one of the central arguments of my paper, either president has to invest more in the diplomatic tool. it doesn't necessarily, translate into increase funding for state department, right. but investing heavily in the diplomatic tool and capabilities we need to do exact plea whly w talked about knitting together new alliance and arrangements. this has become a partisan issue. in the sense you see republican --...
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own foreign policy. i can't go down that path. i can tell you think president bush took action on information that was available to him both from british intelligence, intelligence from our country and around the world, that hussein presented a very serious threat to the world it including the potential of weapons of mass destruction. >> america's had the reputation of being the world's policeman. certainly for my lifetime. it's quite a responsibility. is it one that america continueses to need to have? do you need to be the world's policeman? or as you see superpowers emerging, china, india, others, is it time for that responsibility to be spread around a little bit? >> i don't think any of the leaders of our nation signed up for the idea of america being the policeman of the world. the leader of the free world. i think the leader of the free world needs to be leader of the entire world. i think our nation's leadership has been perhaps the greatest source of national good on the world stage. freeing peo
own foreign policy. i can't go down that path. i can tell you think president bush took action on information that was available to him both from british intelligence, intelligence from our country and around the world, that hussein presented a very serious threat to the world it including the potential of weapons of mass destruction. >> america's had the reputation of being the world's policeman. certainly for my lifetime. it's quite a responsibility. is it one that america continueses...
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really foreign policy people, per se. they are stewart stevens, his media adviser, dan who is is now working with paul ryan. they share this clash of civilizations view about world affairs and also trying to paint the president as the other, as the guy who has some kind of apologist agenda out there. i don't see mitt romney's career as much of a foreign policy guy. he never has been. he was plugged into the neocon view in 2007 and that's still where he is. >> yeah. and this rins eince priebus follows, that he's not one of us. and i said this yesterday. 37% of republicans right now in ohio, a key state in this election coming up in november, believes that the president was not born in this country. so this birtherism is not a theory. mark halperin, howard fineman, thank you. >>> coming up, we all thought it was going to be about the economy, remember that, but overnight foreign policy is emerging as a crucible in the campaign and that may not be good for romney who wanted to run on one thing, jobs. >>> also, wait until you
really foreign policy people, per se. they are stewart stevens, his media adviser, dan who is is now working with paul ryan. they share this clash of civilizations view about world affairs and also trying to paint the president as the other, as the guy who has some kind of apologist agenda out there. i don't see mitt romney's career as much of a foreign policy guy. he never has been. he was plugged into the neocon view in 2007 and that's still where he is. >> yeah. and this rins eince...
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the foreign policy debate here really veered very quickly back to economics and the prism of foreign policy as you say was viewed as it related to economics. let's talk about the economics of the globe right now. to a certain extent, some of us have been arguing in europe you have tried the largest macroeconomic experiment ever with this notion of austerity and at least from my perspective, it doesn't seem to be working that well. are we wrong about that? is the austerity paying off in ways that we're just not seeing it? it seems to me it has driven unemployment up and growth way down. >> that's exactly what it's done in the u.k. it has driven us back into two quarters of recession and for longer recession made it harder for the recovery to come. we have no growth. we pay for the costs of rising unemployment. and that's the lesson of the 1980s as well. we had a similar global recession. so the difficulty in europe is we've not quite -- we don't have a plan b yet. we're putting a lot of pressure on current range of political leaders to try to look at that. >> eliot: it seems to me tha
the foreign policy debate here really veered very quickly back to economics and the prism of foreign policy as you say was viewed as it related to economics. let's talk about the economics of the globe right now. to a certain extent, some of us have been arguing in europe you have tried the largest macroeconomic experiment ever with this notion of austerity and at least from my perspective, it doesn't seem to be working that well. are we wrong about that? is the austerity paying off in ways...
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romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has never been more clear that it really truly is not. >>> drones and modern instruments of war are important tools in our fight, but they are it no substitute for a national security strategy for the middle east. i'll restore the permanent presence of task forces in both the eastern mediterranean and the gulf. i'll restore our navy to the size needed by building 15 ships per year. the route to war and to potential attacks here at home is a politically-timed retreat that boons the afghan people to the same extremists who ravaged their country. i'll evaluate conditions on the ground and weigh the best adv
romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has...
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sarah palin would be a great foreign policy advisor. to her, all policy is foreign. (laughter) and folks... yes. (applause) and to all those panty waste pundits who say that presidential politics should end at the water's edge and that mitt's foreign policy statement was a case of premature inauguration... (laughter) >> stephen: radio host and pillsbury doe dump rush limbaugh has an answer. >> we're only supposed to have one president now at times like this. well, we don't have one, unless romney speaks up. and that's the sad reality. >> stephen: yes. as far as rush and i are concerned mitt romney is our president. and that's the sad reality. and if president... if president romney does not defend america now, he will not deserve to have been elected two months later. (laughter) you know, folks, in times like these, it's hard to know what to say. which mitt proved at his press conference on wednesday. >> i think it's... a... a terrible course to... for america, to stand and apology for our values. >> stephen: damn straight, we must never apologize for our values. in
sarah palin would be a great foreign policy advisor. to her, all policy is foreign. (laughter) and folks... yes. (applause) and to all those panty waste pundits who say that presidential politics should end at the water's edge and that mitt's foreign policy statement was a case of premature inauguration... (laughter) >> stephen: radio host and pillsbury doe dump rush limbaugh has an answer. >> we're only supposed to have one president now at times like this. well, we don't have one,...
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policy and he up against the president who has been dealing with foreign policy for the last four years. what do you think? >> it's interesting. the president did not know much about it. he was in the senate for two years and he didn't know much about foreign policy. we will see. i have great hopes. the american people don't pay attention somebody gave me a great quote. americans don't care about foreign policy until they see a tank coming up their driveway. i think judy is right. where is the economic debate? i'm not sure if americans are going to tune into this. >> jon: romney was a governor of big state. they go on international trade missions and probably know a lot more foreign policy than a state senator? >> i think you hit it. the bar is really low. she actually great. he has good gut insinks. syria is a national security issue for our allies and therefore for us. media is ignoring it because it's not a news story to tell. you could send a reporter beirut but the simple fact is we're not getting the real story on syria. we have bombing in beirut. we have it's unraveling in turkey
policy and he up against the president who has been dealing with foreign policy for the last four years. what do you think? >> it's interesting. the president did not know much about it. he was in the senate for two years and he didn't know much about foreign policy. we will see. i have great hopes. the american people don't pay attention somebody gave me a great quote. americans don't care about foreign policy until they see a tank coming up their driveway. i think judy is right. where...
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>>neil: will the foreign policy do it? >>guest: foreign policy debate is tough because most americans, i am a san francisco giants fan and there is an alternative. but they hear the candidates talking about the broad themes of what is our role in the world? what should we be doing with the enormous economic --. >>neil: so the economy should come up? >>guest: we we -- my old boss, bill clinton --. >>neil: respond to pick big earlier. >> given the stuff he said for two years running for president and the real record of the president, this shouldn't be erased, the only reason it is, is that americans are impatient and want things done day before yesterday and they all to understand, they don't understand why the economy is not great. >>neil: he was trying to say the reason why this is going slow . >>guest: that sounds like a white house press secretary, what the president meant to say. >>neil: what do you thick -- think of that? it takes time. >>guest: it takes time. >>neil: he didn't say that about george bush sr.? >>guest:
>>neil: will the foreign policy do it? >>guest: foreign policy debate is tough because most americans, i am a san francisco giants fan and there is an alternative. but they hear the candidates talking about the broad themes of what is our role in the world? what should we be doing with the enormous economic --. >>neil: so the economy should come up? >>guest: we we -- my old boss, bill clinton --. >>neil: respond to pick big earlier. >> given the stuff he said...
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this is not about reversing the trend of foreign policy. >> i'm not saying reversing. are they realizing they are special? we go a long way back. >>> when we come back, back to iraq. the first time i saw fios, it was absolutely amazing. for years and years we had to put up with cable. once we got fios, it was like somebody like took our computer, shook all the junk out of it. [ male announcer ] don't settle for the same old cable technology. now you can move up to verizon fios with no annual contract required for just $99.99 a month for a year, you'll get a fios triple play and our whole home solution -- including a high speed wireless router, plus a new multi room dvr and hd set top box free for 6 months. with fios the internet was five jabillion times faster. fios gives me way more for my money. [ male announcer ] switch to fios for just $99.99 a month for one year with no annual contract and get our whole home solution. hurry, upgrade to fios. no annual contract means now there's no reason to wait. cable, hasta la vista! [ male announcer ] call 1.866.569.fios. that'
this is not about reversing the trend of foreign policy. >> i'm not saying reversing. are they realizing they are special? we go a long way back. >>> when we come back, back to iraq. the first time i saw fios, it was absolutely amazing. for years and years we had to put up with cable. once we got fios, it was like somebody like took our computer, shook all the junk out of it. [ male announcer ] don't settle for the same old cable technology. now you can move up to verizon fios...
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romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has never been more clear that it really truly is not. ou turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a high-tech masterpiece? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. whatever your business challenge, when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more s
romney's own top foreign policy advisers, have no idea what he would do about foreign policy if he were elected president. has there ever been a campaign where one side just forfeited on this subject? year 12 of the longest war in american history is starting this week. the president's afghanistan war plans are hard to explain, let alone to square with public opinion. this ought to be a foreign policy election. but on what is supposed to be mitt romney's big foreign policy day today, it has...
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foreign policy. he went on to deconstructs that and explain it in a variety of ways. but your thoughts on mr. romney's approach to put foreign policy on the agenda. >> i think he is looking for a way to distinguish himself from president obama's for policy. since he does not have a significant difference in the actual policy prescription that he is calling for, what he is resorting to is simply saying president obama is not tough enough. his rhetoric is not firm enough. he is leading from behind instead of in front. but when pressed on what would you actually do, he is giving out policies that are really not that different from those of president obama. the language is a little bit different. the only significant difference, on iran, we can expect that both president obama and candidate romney will be focusing a great deal on iran as a threat. their language will be very similar. but the red line they are imposing is very different. for president obama, the red line all along has been the question of
foreign policy. he went on to deconstructs that and explain it in a variety of ways. but your thoughts on mr. romney's approach to put foreign policy on the agenda. >> i think he is looking for a way to distinguish himself from president obama's for policy. since he does not have a significant difference in the actual policy prescription that he is calling for, what he is resorting to is simply saying president obama is not tough enough. his rhetoric is not firm enough. he is leading from...
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he's got to show on foreign policy that you keep the boat in the channel that's a minimum requirement of doing the job. the third thing is, he's got about $150 million to spend. they have to spend it carefully and weijsly in about eight to nine states. and if they do that he could make it close -- >> with the super pac included. obama won on points but it wasn't enough to stop the momentum coming out of that first debate? >> he won on points and he conveyed messages to women. i think he could have been more impathetic to the questions. neither of them answered me. he was so intent on fixing, he forgot -- chris: why do you think that's important? >> there was a stagecraft that he didn't quite accomplish -- chris: knowing what you know, that's who they are. >> that's who they are but they have to have some showmanship. the risk is really harder from the president because he has to combat come ni's most effective comeback which is what makes you think he'll do better in these four years than he did in the last four years? chris: i agree with that. now the romney take -- if he win this is
he's got to show on foreign policy that you keep the boat in the channel that's a minimum requirement of doing the job. the third thing is, he's got about $150 million to spend. they have to spend it carefully and weijsly in about eight to nine states. and if they do that he could make it close -- >> with the super pac included. obama won on points but it wasn't enough to stop the momentum coming out of that first debate? >> he won on points and he conveyed messages to women. i...
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this is not about reversing the trend of foreign policy. >> i'm not saying reversing. are they realizing they are special? we go a long way back. >>> when we come back, back to iraq. >>> issue two, back to iraq. 116 iraqi citizens dead. 300 wounded. bombings and shootings throughout iraq this week. it was iraq's deadliest week in two years. al qaeda claimed the ongoing horror on radical islamist web sites. al qaeda declares it has launched a new jihad against iraq, vowing to retake areas it once controlled, thus pushing iraq into civil war. the attacks hit mostly sunni- dominated areas with ethnically and religiously mixed populations. and get this, these attacks have come during the holy month of ramadan, the muslim month of fasting, which began last week. iraq's bloodshed coincides with an intensifying conflict. and neighboring syria. despite the horrific continuing assault on iraq, al qaeda is regarded by iraqi officials as significantly weaker than at its peak in 2006 and 2007. yet the nation is far from carter notes how the horror is multiplying itself. >> first o
this is not about reversing the trend of foreign policy. >> i'm not saying reversing. are they realizing they are special? we go a long way back. >>> when we come back, back to iraq. >>> issue two, back to iraq. 116 iraqi citizens dead. 300 wounded. bombings and shootings throughout iraq this week. it was iraq's deadliest week in two years. al qaeda claimed the ongoing horror on radical islamist web sites. al qaeda declares it has launched a new jihad against iraq,...
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what is your sense of what he might do these of the foreign policy. the last of these presidential debates will b specifice wii about foreign policy. this notion that is president lacks resolve and our foreign policy is lacking under his leadership. >> i don't know. to think that our problem is too little military seems to me again to get it completely wrong. we wasted a great deal of the past 11 years in two wars we never should of had. the iraq war on phony pretenses. the afghanistan war, another war we should never have had. we spent trillions of dollars, a waste of money and a waste of blood. it seems what romney is saying we do not have enough military. again, to my mind, it gets it exactly wrong. i think president obama has been judicious in the past year in this arab spring, which is a tremendous amount of tumult in the middle east. we do not control events cared for romney to pretend that we do it and pretend there is a military approach to all this takes us back to the dark days when we were losing so many more lives and fighting so much usel
what is your sense of what he might do these of the foreign policy. the last of these presidential debates will b specifice wii about foreign policy. this notion that is president lacks resolve and our foreign policy is lacking under his leadership. >> i don't know. to think that our problem is too little military seems to me again to get it completely wrong. we wasted a great deal of the past 11 years in two wars we never should of had. the iraq war on phony pretenses. the afghanistan...
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particularly with foreign policy. in fact, obama was being criticized for talking about intervention in afghanistan and pa pakistan. this is a myth. there's no drastic change on afghanistan and iraq today. i would like him to be moving out quicker. on israel, i've seen nothing negle negative. we have a republican party to the right of ronald reagan where mitt romney attacks rick santorum for voting to raise the debt limit, where you have people advocating significant expenditures and no tax increases where they say in the ryan budget and, again, by his own assertion, let's increase military spending so we can make cuts from what otherwise would be there in medicare and medicaid. it is a very radical agenda in the social area with regards to lesbian and gay people, with women's reproductive rights. on immigration they have been militantly anti-. the administration hasn't been successful in trying to get a more rational policy but that is, in part, because they have so willingly opposed it and people are frightened. the
particularly with foreign policy. in fact, obama was being criticized for talking about intervention in afghanistan and pa pakistan. this is a myth. there's no drastic change on afghanistan and iraq today. i would like him to be moving out quicker. on israel, i've seen nothing negle negative. we have a republican party to the right of ronald reagan where mitt romney attacks rick santorum for voting to raise the debt limit, where you have people advocating significant expenditures and no tax...
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foreign policy? or is there any hope that a next presidency whether it's obama or romney can help shift that balance and get out of this overmilitarization cycle of u.s. foreign policy which relates to the congressional question that was raised as well, given the budgeting challenges and where this congress goes. just a final question about a related assumption, one of the core assumptions that's -- you know, there's no light between the two sides. is about this question of u.s. exceptionalism. i think until we can get out of what i think is now an outdated idea for today's world of u.s. exceptionalism, being the grounding for our u.s. foreign policy, we're going to be stuck in not having the right solutions to the world's problems. is there hope for getting to the different approach to how we see our place in the world? >> let's take the militarization first. >> this is one of the central arguments that either president has to invest more in the diplomatic tool. that doesn't necessarily translate di
foreign policy? or is there any hope that a next presidency whether it's obama or romney can help shift that balance and get out of this overmilitarization cycle of u.s. foreign policy which relates to the congressional question that was raised as well, given the budgeting challenges and where this congress goes. just a final question about a related assumption, one of the core assumptions that's -- you know, there's no light between the two sides. is about this question of u.s. exceptionalism....
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because foreign policy is a chess game and not checkers. >> with mr. romney, being president means never having to say you're wrong or you're sar. do we have to wait for your memoir for you to look back 20 years ago to suggest that you did something wrong? it does not mean that you're weak, it means that you're strong if you can acknowledge a flaw or a departure from the truth. >> indeed, i wish we had more time. thank you so much. >>> next mr. ryan is welcomed back to his real home, the halls of congress, stay with us. >> well, mr. president, it's nice to see paul ryan back here in congress. it will be even nicer to see him back here as a full-time member in january. ♪ [ honk! ] ♪ [ honk! ] ♪ [ male announcer ] now you'll know when to stop. [ honk! ] the all-new nissan altima with easy fill tire alert. [ honk! ] it's our most innovative altima ever. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ his morning starts with arthritis pain. and two pills. afternoon's overhaul starts with more pain. more pills. triple checking hydraulics. the evening brings more
because foreign policy is a chess game and not checkers. >> with mr. romney, being president means never having to say you're wrong or you're sar. do we have to wait for your memoir for you to look back 20 years ago to suggest that you did something wrong? it does not mean that you're weak, it means that you're strong if you can acknowledge a flaw or a departure from the truth. >> indeed, i wish we had more time. thank you so much. >>> next mr. ryan is welcomed back to his...
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mitt romney, trust me on foreign policy. i'm the guy to look to for foreign policy jeeps you, that's their new plan. give it a go. you never know. i think this is a bad idea for them. joining us now is david corns. author of the new book "somehowdown." david is also the author of the book "hewbris." was told the definitive story of how the last president sold the country a decade ago on why he thought it was great to invade iraq. thanks for being here. >> good to be here. >> i was talking about whether the george w. bush legacy hangs over the campaign in a positive or negative way. he said it would be great day when they get the endorsement. i think it already looks bad for romney that he has the george w. bush policy advisers. do you think the iraq war debacle and the presidency still resonates when people look at mitt romney? >> i'm not sure people make the connection when they look at mitt romney. the more he talks as if he comes from the 1970s and 1980s when it comes to foreign policy, they will put the connection that h
mitt romney, trust me on foreign policy. i'm the guy to look to for foreign policy jeeps you, that's their new plan. give it a go. you never know. i think this is a bad idea for them. joining us now is david corns. author of the new book "somehowdown." david is also the author of the book "hewbris." was told the definitive story of how the last president sold the country a decade ago on why he thought it was great to invade iraq. thanks for being here. >> good to be...
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i mean, obviously he's got no record on foreign policy, so that is his record on foreign policy. here is his record on him talking about foreign policy. the last time he ran for president, mitt romney was in favor of a timetable for ending the iraq war. >> people have to have goals and benchmarks and things which they're moving towards with flexible timetables and schedules. those are things which of course exist within our military and within al maliki's military. of course you have a series of milestones and yardsticks. >> you believe there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops? >> well, there is no question but that the president and prime minister al maliki have to have a series of timetables, milestones that they speak about. >> you have to have that. so the last time you ran for president, mitt romney was in favor of a timetable for leaving iraq. mr. romney was also against a timetable for leaving iraq. >> i do not support and have never supported a timed withdrawal. so that's wrong. i have never, ever supported a specific timetable for exit from iraq. i said i wo
i mean, obviously he's got no record on foreign policy, so that is his record on foreign policy. here is his record on him talking about foreign policy. the last time he ran for president, mitt romney was in favor of a timetable for ending the iraq war. >> people have to have goals and benchmarks and things which they're moving towards with flexible timetables and schedules. those are things which of course exist within our military and within al maliki's military. of course you have a...
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in foreign policy you start a war. >> a familiar face with very wise words. let's get right to our panel. in washington pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post" eugene robinson and michael o'hanlon, senior fellow with the 21st century defense initiative. two men better equipped for today i could not find. eugene, you have been a foreign correspondent in places as far afield as argentina and europe. you know the middle east. mitt romney says he wants to arm the syrian rebels with serious amounts of military hardware. i ask you, eugene, is america ready and willing to start a proxy war with iran on the road to damascus? >> well, good question, and first of all, i think you have to ask given the way romney has changed his policy in various areas, you have to ask is he serious about that. but if he is, that's the one sort of bit of news that came out of his speech today. it's not as if we're not already at least assisting in the arming of the rebels. there was an intelligence finding by president obama that said we could give covert aid essentia
in foreign policy you start a war. >> a familiar face with very wise words. let's get right to our panel. in washington pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post" eugene robinson and michael o'hanlon, senior fellow with the 21st century defense initiative. two men better equipped for today i could not find. eugene, you have been a foreign correspondent in places as far afield as argentina and europe. you know the middle east. mitt romney says he wants to arm the...
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i have not seen a more reckless foreign policy since president carter. >> feckless foreign policy? does the al qaeda think the president is a feckless failure? rudy giuliani, once called america's mayor, went down to ground zero and criticized the president on iran. >> there has to be a sense of urgency about stopping them instead of this almost irrational desire to negotiate with them. they have to be afraid of us if we're going to stop them. and i'm not certain that's the case right now. >> look, criticizing the president's foreign policy is fine. but doing it on september 11th and from ground zero? that's really too much. and yesterday former vice president dick cheney claimed americans were, quote, offended at what he called president obama's effort to take sole credit for the killing of osama bin laden. that's not true either. president obama praises the s.e.a.l.s who killed bin laden every chance he gets. the truth is, republicans are desperate because for the first time in decades, they can't pretend like they are trusted on the issue of national security. for years they've
i have not seen a more reckless foreign policy since president carter. >> feckless foreign policy? does the al qaeda think the president is a feckless failure? rudy giuliani, once called america's mayor, went down to ground zero and criticized the president on iran. >> there has to be a sense of urgency about stopping them instead of this almost irrational desire to negotiate with them. they have to be afraid of us if we're going to stop them. and i'm not certain that's the case...